Principal Site Reliability Engineer; Cloud, Observability & Automation

Position: Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud, Observability & Automation)
Job-:
Information Technology

Location:

Jersey City, NJ, United States

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Closes:
Salary Range:
Associate Director-95,-USDFeatured Opportunities:
No

FLSA Status:
Exempt Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).The Impact You Will Have in This Role The Enterprise Application Support (EAS) team supports critical applications across the ITP and ECS business lines, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise platforms.

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will lead reliability engineering efforts across mission-critical enterprise platforms and applications. You will be a partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams to improve service reliability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on establishing reliability standards, driving service health improvements, advancing observability practices, reducing operational risk, and enabling highly available, scalable systems through automation, modern engineering practices, and AI-enabled technologies.

Your Primary Responsibilities Drive reliability, scalability, performance, and resiliency improvements across critical enterprise applications and services.

Define and implement reliability engineering practices, including service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and operational KPIs.Design and implement observability solutions using platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, Open Telemetry, and related monitoring technologies.

Establish effective monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and service health frameworks that enable proactive issue detection and rapid resolution.

Partner with development teams to incorporate reliability, observability, resiliency, and operational readiness into application design and delivery processes.

Perform architecture reviews and identify opportunities to improve system availability, performance, fault tolerance, and recoverability.

Lead major incident response efforts, root cause analysis activities, and continuous service improvement initiatives.

Drive alert optimization, incident reduction, and MTTR improvement programs through data-driven operational analysis.

Champion resiliency engineering practices, including failure testing, disaster recovery preparedness, dependency analysis, and recovery validation.

Develop automation,…